Re: nvram polling for hardware mixer

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On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:05:15AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > I *really* don't want to see those keys mapped to something that would go
> > and increase the AC97/HDA mixer volume up, etc... btw.  and I *bet* that's
> > just the kind of stupidity people would pull off (because they have already
> > done it in the past numerous times).  HAL guys won't do it, I documented it
> > properly to be sure of it, and I trust them to read docs.  But what about
> > the authors of the typical "thinkpad helper" crapp or crapplet?  Or should I
> > just ignore their existence, and let them break things for the unaware user,
> > if they want to?
> 
> This problem already has to be dealt with in brightness control, so I'd 
> just send the keys. FWIW, it turns out that slaving the volume keys to 
> the master volume actually works surprisingly well - it's not "correct", 
> but it's pretty close to the expected behaviour for the user. Sending 

I am not sure I follow.  You want the internal mixer to be adjusted (the
hardware does it no matter what) and ALSO the AC97 mixer to be adjusted?

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

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